The media and elected representatives need to pursue this story to the bitter end, not for partisan purposes, but to ensure the continuance of our democracy.
Why, then, if he is sincerely concerned about the growing chasm between the haves and the have-nots, does Mr. Brooks so often insist on supporting the policies that ensure its continuance, and the architects behind those policies?
They'll need to support students up and down the country to ensure the continuance of quality education, while running a major national campaign to defeat damaging marketisation in education and planning to hold to account the politicians that turned their back on us.
He is not expected to lecture, preach, or act as spiritual leader to his parishioners; rather, his main role is to ensure the continuance of a satisfactory relationship between the kami (god or sacred power) and the worshipper through offerings, evocation of the kami, and mediation of the deity's blessing to the parishioners.
It will, he said, ensure "the continuance and enhancement of this important research program".
Observations at both sites point to the need for maintenance regimes that will ensure the continuance of ecosystem processes.
If we adopt a systems view, however, the design task is not to ensure the continuance of human control or to find a safe niche for human talent.
If, for example, a group has a right to its culture as a participatory good, that might imply that it is entitled to constrain the freedom of its dissident members in ways that ensure the continuance of its culture.
As a matachín a carnival jester he is one of a host of mortal servants enlisted to ensure the continuance of this sacred and time-honored tradition.
